The Cathedral of the Holy Saviour began as a collegiate church in the thirteenth century on the site of a former mosque and was not elevated to cathedral status until 1980, though it had been used as the principal church of Jerez for centuries before that. The building visible today is largely seventeenth and eighteenth century, a mixture of Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque that gives it a slightly composite character — the tower is Baroque, the nave is Gothic, and the facade is almost Churrigueresque in its exuberance.
Inside, the highlight is the sacristy, which holds Zurbarán's large canvas of the Sleeping Child Jesus — a tender and technically brilliant painting that deserves to be better known. The cathedral also holds a notable collection of silver and religious metalwork accumulated over five centuries. The main facade looks across a large square that doubles as the flamenco festival stage in September, when the Jerez Flamenco Festival transforms the plaza into one of the best outdoor venues in the country.